Spur Gears r.02.1

Description

Spur gears are the most common type of gears used in industry and they have straight, flat-topped teeth set parallel to the shaft.

This free web application creates an external spur gear by the simulation of the movement of the rack cutter and provides the following main tasks:

calculate the geometric parameters of the gear,

draw an accurate image of the gear with a detail of the teeth,

adjust the tooth thickness by use of correction (optimization of toothing),

calculate the tooth root bending stress with the Lewis method,

return a DXF file containing the 2D profile of the gear to be used with 2D and 3D CAD software.

To create the gear insert the following parameters in the input form:

the number of teethz,

the modulem,

the pressure angleα,

the rack shift coefficientx/m for the adjustment of the tooth thickness,

the coefficient of fillet radius of the rack cutterR/m,

the static nominal torqueC applied,

the face widthb of the tooth.

Standard gears

For standard gears, the pressure angleα is 20°, the coefficient of fillet radius of the rack cutterR/m is equal to 0.38 (type A basic rack tooth profile - ISO 53:1998) and the rack shift coefficientx/m is 0.

Set afterwards the Resolution - Coarse, Medium or Fine - and click on the "Run" button .

If there is no undercut, the software calculates the tooth root bending stress using the Lewis method, provides the geometric parameters of the gear
and generates the DXF profile of the gear where the tooth profile is the true involute curve and the base radius is the true trochoid curve.

Tooth root bending stress

The tooth root bending stressσF occurs with the application of the load at the outer point of a single tooth:

σF = Fbt / (b·m·YL)

where YL is the form factor which takes into account the influence of the tooth form.

The tooth root bending stress σF doesn't take into account variation due to applied torque, dynamic effects, inaccuracies in manufacture,
elastic deformations, geometric tolerances, local stress effects due to the change of section at the tooth root, rimmed gears, etc.

To download the DXF profile of the gear, click on the "Download DXF Profile" button and use it with your favourite CAD software.

For the meaning of the terms used in the software and for additional information regarding spur gears,
click on the "Spur Gears Help" button .

Warning! There is an undercut!

Well done! You successfully create your spur gear!

Data Input

z

The number of teeth must be integer, positive and less than 110

m

(mm)

The module must be a positive number

α

(deg)

The pressure angle must be positive and less than 32.14°

x/m

The coefficient must be between -1.25 and +1.25

R/m

The coefficient must be zero or a positive number

C

(Nm)

The torque must be a positive number

b

(mm)

The face width must be a positive number

Resolution

Spur Gear Image

Tooth Image

Results

Example #1 - Standard spur gear

Consider to create a m=3 standard gear

α=20°

x/m=0

R/m=0.38

with the number of teeth equal to 18 - the minimum number to not have geometric undercut effects.

The gear has a face-width of 10 mm and a 50 Nm static torque is applied.

Here below are the input data and the corresponding image of the gear created clicking the "Run" button .

The table of results provides:

the minimum and the maximum rack shift coefficient (x/mmin and x/mmax);

the reference diameter (d);

the base diameter (db);

the involute tooth limit diameter (dlim);

the root diameter (df);

the addendum diameter (dt);

the tooth root bending stress at point T (σF);

...

Example #2 - Spur gear corrected tooth

Consider to create the same gear of the Example #1 but with the number of teeth equal to 16.

To do this it's necessary to correct the tooth of the gear using a shift coefficient x/m = +0.5.

Here below are the input data and the corresponding gear created with a 3D cad software using the downloaded DXF profile.